The Amazing Julio

Thanks for the tip, Marion.

From the DavidByrne, Talking Heads website:

"I had heard of David Hanson and his robot creations—the Einstein head and especially the robot of Phillip K. Dick that responded to questions from the public—but I had never seen one. At an event called Nextfest in New York, I saw a prototype of Jules, a fairly lifelike-looking head of an ordinary young man, slightly androgynous, who could change his facial expressions to simulate emotions. Jules could frown, smile and look slightly skeptical. In addition, Jules could make eye contact—of a sort. Hanson had rigged a system by which the thing could lock on to someone standing in front of it and then, within limits, follow them as they changed position. The robot thus appeared to be looking at you—which in a way it was. There were other robots at this event, but Hanson's seemed to me to be on the verge of something—something both truly uncanny and something that might cause us to question what is seeing, what are emotions and what is communication and conversation."


http://www.theflowingofthedao.com/wordpress/2008/07/06/julio-the-uncanny/

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[YourFuture2012]

fake no spirit I don't feel anything

You misleaded people

Destructive behaviour will doom you

you'l see

[w0r1dpeace]

...

[Branigan4ever]

This robot isn't as advanced or life-like as the Japanese models online. His gestures are too exaggerated and he just looks odd.

[w0r1dpeace]

agree

[frozenblue542]

ARGH BIG WORDS! *holds head* STOP IT! STOP IIIIITTTT!!! AAHHGGGG!!!!!!!!!(btw this scares the shit outta me :(

[w0r1dpeace]

lolwtf

[patternsinchaos]

is that David Byrne's voice?

[isokessu]

those guys should take that robot in middle of some big city, give some glasses to himor something :D and see that do peoples even know that it's robot

[SeaCadetPR09]

this robot reminds me of The Sims.

[TheEruditepolymath]

i, for one, welcome the coming robot overlords

[siciliano29]

This is a bit misleading.. that's a human's voice singing, not a robot's. Our robotic speech synthesis hasn't come that far along yet.... unfortunately most robots STILL sound horribly, well, robotic. =\

[Firedda]

However, his conversational abilities go far beyond caned replied for preprogrammed questions. The Japanese robots may look better, but if you watch them for too long, they start to look foolish, saying the same thing over and over. :)

(By the way, Jules is capable of subtle facial expressions as well. The frubber used in his face is also actually better than that of the Japanese robots, requiring less power to form an expression.)

I agree, though, that he does look odd in this video. :\

[fleshtheworld]

I love the dark background and creepy directing they did with this. The artist appear to have purposely made Julio look very unhuman and creepy. I hope his illuminated brother Jesus will be less creepy... They should have added a part where cries and the background noise starts to fade away and hes all alone crying in the silent dark and the camera slowly pulls away to show his incomplete robot body with no skin.

My nightmares cannot compare.

[SuperKiara]

ahah..it's amazing though:)

[stanum88]

*LOLs*